Skansen: Roses and Herbs

Recently I've been to Sweden and decided to visit Skansen, the first open-air museum in Sweden, located on an island in Stockholm, capital of Sweden. Skansen was opened in 1891 to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era. The museum is  big so I have naturally chosen the most interesting areas to me: the Rose garden and the Herb garden. 
Rose garden was created in 1964. In the center of the Rose garden the statue of Carl Linnaeus welcomes the visitors. He was the great botanist and scientist of 18th century. There are some fifty species of roses in the garden, mostly older sorts such as bush roses, park roses, wild roses and climbing roses.

The roses were beautiful and smelled pleasantly therefore I would spend much time there but I wanted to see the Herb garden as well.
The Herb Garden contains some one hundred herbs, medicinal plants and decorative plants that have a long history. In the 1890s a small kitchen garden with about 50 edible plants was created here, in which the most common types of grain, forage and domestic plants were represented. A new, somewhat larger herb garden was laid out in 1914 on the same site.
I tried to take photos including the labels because I didn't know some herbs and could only recognize the most popular herbs.

Physalis alkekengi or Chinese lantern

Allium schoenoprasum or wild Chives

Basilicum ocimum or Basil

Peppermint

Myrrhis odorata or Sweet chervil

Hyssopus or Hyssop

Tanacetum balsamita or Costmary

Ruta graveolens or Rue

Melissa or Lemon balm

Cochlearia or Scurvy herb

Here are 10 of the 50 herbs, I am well aware Basil and Peppermint that I grow in my garden. Other herbs I could only recall the names, maybe somewhere I heard about them. Do you use herbs for cooking or treatment? Do you know other herbs or grow them in your garden?


source: Skansen gardens